W Quotes
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“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.”
“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.”
“We must not pick and choose which commandments we think are important to keep but acknowledge all of God’s commandments. We must stand firm and steadfast, having perfect confidence in the Lord’s consistency and perfect trust in His promises.”
“We must not pluck death from the Maker's hand.”
“We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.”
“We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environment, and appropriate contraception for everyone (and by their own example), doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars.”
“We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.”
Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change
“We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine.”
Source: Martin Luther's Table Talk
“We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.”
“We must not repeat the same mistake. Putin will not last forever, and we have no way of knowing what the nature of his departure will be-voluntary, forced, or natural. But from our history we can imagine how great the temptation may be to overlook at first small, the more major, transgressions on the part of whomever we are backing. The new leader gives voice to our interests, you can imagine someone saying, our political outlook. In order, for example, not to let the populists come to power, he may tweak, tamper, and tinker a little. He may make use of the national television channel. But what of it? He'll be telling it how it is, he's our guy, after all, and he'll only get rid of people if they are really asking for it.
That's why, as a reminder of mistakes in the past and a pointer for the future, I would very much like this sense of karmic retribution to be shared by as many people as possible. People who, like me back then, turned a blind eye to the lawlessness, the lies, and the hypocrisy and saw it all as a case of the ends justifying the means and as necessary backing for a particular team.”
Source: Patriot: A Memoir
“We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish. We all have a role to play in achieving this goal.”
“We must not rest until we have receive what we have ask of the Lord God.”
“We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.”
“We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.”
Source: The Enneads
“We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.”
“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”
“We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.”
“We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed at night with nothing to eat, among the poor newsboys who will sleep covered with newspapers in doorways.”
“We must not settle for an informed mind without an engaged heart.”
Source: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
“We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.”
“We must not sit down and wait for miracles. Up and be going!”
“We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.”
“We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.”
“We must not stand upon trifles.”
Source: Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
“We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.”
Source: Back to Methuselah
“We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.”
Source: Back to Methuselah
“We must not stint
Our necessary actions in the fear
To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow
That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further
Than vainly longing.”
Source: King Henry VIII, Or, All is True
“We must not stress ourselves too much over a singular factor like exercise or special diets. We must work out our karmic tribulations and crises that are brought from our past mistakes.”
Source: Higher Science of Longevity
“We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.”
“We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.”
“We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.”
Source: Letters and Social Aims
“We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.”
Source: John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826
“We must not, therefore, be frightened by the assertion that a thing is natural into the admission that it is good; good does not, by definition, mean anything that is natural; and it is therefore always an open question whether anything that is natural is good.”
Source: Principia Ethica
“We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.”
“We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.”
Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog
“We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.”
Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Gospels Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)
“We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest in any work or duty of our own, but we may find it in Christ, whom faith apprehends for justification and salvation.”
Source: The Method of Grace: How the Holy Spirit Works
“We must not think that religious concerns swamped all other social activities. They simply provided a focal point for them.”
Source: Christian History: An Introduction
“We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in its benignest moods; but there are seasons when I delight to feel its breath upon my cheek, though it be never advisable to throw open my bosom and take it into my heart, as I would its gentle sisters of the south and west.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“We must not think, "Well, we have all the truth, we understand the main pillars of our faith, and we may rest on this knowledge." The truth is an advancing truth, and we must walk in the increasing light.”
Source: Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book II of IV
“We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.”
“We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers.”
Source: The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri
“We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.”
“We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her.”
“We must not wait for life to offer us the opportunity to be in nature. Find time each day to venture outdoors.”
“We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.”
Source: What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
“We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.”
“We must not weave tales that harm our children; their well-being and future depend on the stories we tell.”
Source: Slipping into another world
“We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.”
Source: The life and sayings of Saint Catherine of Genoa